377 pages ; 20 cm

Millions of people have died as a result of Britain's foreign policy. Curtis shows Prime Minister Tony Blair's government's continuing support for many of the world's most repressive regimes and, using unearthed evidence from formerly secret documents, reveals the hidden history of unethical British policies, including: support for the massacres in Iraq in 1963; Britain's private backing of the US in its aggression against Vietnam; support for the rise of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin; the prosecution of a covert 'dirty war' in Yemen in the 1960s; Britain's backing of apartheid regimes in South Africa; secret campaigns with the US to overthrow the governments of Indonesia and British Guiana; the welcoming of General Pinochet's brutal coup in Chile in 1973; and much more

Includes index

Part I: Iraq -- 1. Occupying Iraq: the attack on democracy -- 2. The irrelevance of international law -- 3. Deceiving the public: the Iraq propaganda campaign -- 4. The new Ministry of Offence -- 5. Massacres in Iraq: the secret history

Part II: Propaganda, reality -- 6. Psychological warfare beyond Iraq -- 7. 'Humanitarian intervention': the fraudulent pretext -- 8. From the horse's mouth: Whitehall's real goals

Part III: Terror, aggression -- 9. Friendly terrorists: New Labour's key allies -- 10. Nigerians: war for oil -- 11. Indonesians: tools for covert action -- 12. Vietnamese: secret support for US aggression

Part IV: Coups, dictators -- 13. Ugandans: the rise of Idi Amin -- 14. Chileans: protecting a dictator -- 15. Guyanans: a constitutional coup -- 16. Arabians: dirty wars

Includes bibliographical references and index

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